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NY Tech Week 2025 – ATS Cybersecurity Event Recap
On June 5, ATS opened its doors for NY Tech Week and turned a 6th-floor downtown office into something electric. The session? Startup Cyber Risks Briefing + Drinks. The mood? Direct, candid, and full of moments that made founders sit up straighter.
What Happens When You’re Hacked? We Walked Founders Through It
Jacob Niederer, ATS’ Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, didn’t waste anyone’s time with hypotheticals. He walked the room through real breaches, real damage, and the brutally short timeline between “something’s weird” and “we’ve lost control.” Startups in the room learned exactly how threat actors move, what they’re buying on the dark web, and which failures come back to bite the hardest—delayed disclosure, recycled passwords, silence at 3AM.
From a growing financial company’s 7.6 M-customer ransomware fallout to 23andMe’s disastrous blame game, Jacob broke it all down. Then he handed attendees the only thing that matters in those first 24 hours: a tactical, clear-eyed survival plan. Attendees walked through a battle-tested incident playbook built for the first 24 hours after a breach: isolate, communicate, document, escalate, investigate. The session covered both legal obligations and practical readiness—what strong preparation looks like beyond software settings, and how to test decision-making under pressure.
Guests weren’t just there to listen. They engaged. Notebooks were filled with furious scribbles. Pictures of slides were snapped for future reference. The post-briefing networking gave founders space to connect, swap experiences, and meet others navigating the same risks. What made it stand out wasn’t just the content—it was the clarity. Everyone left with a sharper sense of what they’d do next if their company got hit.
ATS will be back next NY Tech Week, but if your company can’t wait until then, you shouldn’t. Reach out. We’ll show you what’s already exposed—and what to do about it.
